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Rick Broadbent is a sports writer for the Times, for whom he covers MotoGP, among other things. He has previously witten books on football, boxing and athletics as well as, most recently, collaborating with motorcycle legend Ron Haslam on his autobiography Rocket Men, published by Bantam Press in July 2008.

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This is the fast lane and they all dance in a ring of fire...

In Ring of Fire, the first book to cover the whole of the MotoGP era, Rick Broadbent gives a breathless behind-the-scenes account of the acclaim, heroism, pressures and danger of life at 200mph. At its centre is Valentino Rossi. Brilliant, eccentric, brave and above all fast, the Italian megastar has left motorcycling records trailing in his wake. From his rivalries with Max Biaggi and Sete Gibernau, through his dethroning by a farm boy named Nicky Hayden, the emergence of young Australian Casey Stoner from the back of a mangy paddock trailer, to warring Spanish starlets Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, Rossi has risen, fallen, and been reborn.

Ring of Fire also looks back at the sport's tradition of romance, reprobates and debauchery, interweaving the story of Rossi's hero, Mike Hailwood, a legend who double-dated twin sisters with his great rival Giacomo Agostini before launching a mesmerizing comeback of his own. By turns funny, sad, shocking and uplifting, Ring of Fire brings us face to face with the extraordinary cast of characters that make up this white-knuckle sport and what makes them tick. To be faster, harder, better.